All 3 Uses
apathy
in
The Plague
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- For this attitude implies that such actions shine out as rare exceptions, while callousness and apathy are the general rule.†
Part 2
- Thus, while it is true that all who were parted came ultimately to this state, we must add that all did not attain it simultaneously; moreover, once this utter apathy had fallen on them, there were still flashes of lucidity, broken lights of memory that rekindled in the exiles a younger, keener sensibility.†
Part 3
- She was greatly struck by the apathy of his voice when, on her asking how he was feeling, he replied that he was in a bad way, he did not need a doctor, and all he wished was to be taken to the hospital, so as to comply with the regulations.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(apathy) lack of interest and enthusiasm
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)